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Laura Murphy designs and makes delicate, translucent vessels and sculptural botanically-themed organic structures from her studio in South Oxfordshire, using traditional white parian porcelain. Working with a limited palette of striking colours against the ice-white clay, her ceramics feature crisp, fluid patterns inspired by botanical structures and movement across rural landscapes such as a swallow’s flight, a bumblebee’s path from flower to flower or a breeze through a wheat field.

Laura’s Torquil Tree series was developed during an artist residency at Torquil Pottery and features hand painted vessels that celebrate the unique silhouette of each individual tree and branch.

The sculptural Hydrangea series creates intricate sculptures of hydrangea petals at varying sizes, replicating the complex organic structure within each individual petal and using seasonal colours to pick out patterns. These were developed as a response to research into Seasonal Affective Disorder and light therapy.@LMCeramic